Inspirational Quotes

Nature

It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

-Carrot Top

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Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

-Gordon W. Allport

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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

-Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

– Maurice Maeterlinck

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

-Orison Swett Marden

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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

-Sinclair Lewis

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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

-Paul Dirac

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Nature is not human hearted.

Nature is not human hearted.

-Lao Tzu

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

-Joyce Carol Oates

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn’t normal. I didn’t have to go to school, so I didn’t. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I’m almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I’m crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn’t normal. I didn’t have to go to school, so I didn’t. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I’m almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I’m crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

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As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

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As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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